ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on ethnographic research that was undertaken in Serbia between September 2001 and September 2002, shortly after the end of the war in former Yugoslavia. The research concerned the use of dance and movement in psychosocial work with Serbian refugees and internally displaced (IDP) children and their families. The chapter deals with the interlinked voices of two founding members of Zdravo Da Ste, Vesna Ognjenovic and Bojana Skorc, who are both also psychologists and academics. It explains a piece of reflexive ethnography in which the different voices and meanings within the field can be heard and represented. Collective centres were the places in which refugee and IDP families were placed on arrival and the spaces within which they tried to re-establish their everyday lives. Most of the centres were inadequate for living, and had minimal hygiene facilities and limited personal space.